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 1997 Movies Based on Books
Read the Book Before You See the Movie. Which is better? You decide. Browse movies based on books.
Inventing the Abbotts (Drama, Adaptation)
  
PLOT: Inventing the Abbotts is a dramatic look at the life of two boys from the wrong side of the tracks and their interaction with the three daughters of local aristocrat Lloyd Abbott. The boys, Jacey (Billy Crudup) and Doug (Joaquin Phoenix) have only 3 things in common: their family, table tennis and chasing the Abbott sisters. AUTHOR: Sue Miller
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1997 Movies Based On Books List |
| Movie Title | Book Title | Author |
 Absolute Power |  Absolute Power | David Baldacci | | Affliction | Affliction | Russell Banks | | Anna Karenina | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | | Blood Oranges, The | Blood Oranges, The | John Hawkes | | Borrowers, The | Borrowers, The | Mary Norton | | Brave, The | Brave, The | Gregory McDonald | | Buddy | Animals Are My Hobby | Gertrude Davies Lintz | | Butcher Boy, The | Butcher Boy, The | Patrick McCabe | | Contact | Contact | Carl Sagan | | Critical Care | Critical Care | Richard Dooling | | Devil's Advocate, The | Devil's Advocate, The | Andrew Neiderman | | Donnie Brasco | Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia | Joseph D. Pistone | | Education of Little Tree, The | Education of Little Tree, The | Forrest Carter | | Ex, The | Ex, The | John Lutz | | Fever Pitch | Fever Pitch | Nick Hornby | | Four Days in September | O Que ? Isso, Companheiro? | Fernando Gabeira | | George Wallace | George Wallace | Marshall Frady | | Going All The Way | Going All The Way | Dan Wakefield | | I Know What You Did Last Summer | I Know What You Did Last Summer | Lois Duncan | | Ice Storm, The | Ice Storm, The | Rick Moody | | Inventing the Abbotts | Inventing the Abbotts | Sue Miller | | Jackal, The | Day of the Jackal, The | Frederick Forsyth | | Jackie Brown | Jackie Brown | Elmore Leonard | | Keep the Aspidistra Flying | Keep the Aspidistra Flying | George Orwell | | Keys to Tulsa | Keys to Tulsa | Brian Fair Berkey | | Kiss the Girls | Kiss the Girls | James Patterson | | L.A. Confidential | L.A. Confidential | James Ellroy | | Legend of The Mummy | Jewel of Seven Stars, The | Bram Stoker | | Little Men | Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys | Lousia May Alcott | | Lolita | Lolita | Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov | | Lost World | Lost World | Michael Crichton | | Love Always | Finding Signs | Sharlene Baker | | Love and Death on Long Island | Love and Death on Long Island | Gilbert Adair | | Men | Men | Margaret Diehl | | Metroland | Metroland | Julian Barnes | | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt | | Mill on the Floss, The | Mill on the Floss, The | George Eliot | | Minotaur | Minotaur | Benjamin Tammuz | | Mrs. Dalloway | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | | Night Falls on Manhattan | Tainted Evidence | Robert Daley | | Night Flier | Night Flier | Stephen King | | Oscar and Lucinda | Oscar and Lucinda | Peter Carey | | Perdita Durango | Perdita Durango | Barry Gifford | | Photographing Fairies | Photographing Fairies | Steve Szilagyi | | Planet of Junior Brown, The | Planet of Junior Brown, The | Viginia Hamilton | | Postman, The | Postman, The | David Brin | | Private Parts | Private Parts | Howard Stern | | Rainmaker, The | Rainmaker, The | John Grisham | | Relic, The | Relic | Douglas Preston | | Robinson Crusoe | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | | Sea Wolf, The | Sea Wolf, The | Jack London | | Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo, The | Second Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | | Seven Years in Tibet | Seven Years in Tibet | Heinrich Harrer | | Six Ways to Sunday | Portrait of a Young Man Drowning | Charles Perry | | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Peter Hoeg | | Starship Troopers | Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein | | Sweet Hereafter | Sweet Hereafter, The | Russell Banks | | That Darn Cat | Undercover Cat | Mildred Gordon | | Thousand Acres, A | Thousand Acres, A | Jane Smiley | | Touch | Touch | Elmore Leonard | | U Turn | Ici Commence l'Enfer | John Ridley | | Wag the Dog | American Hero | Larry Beinhart | | Washington Square | Washington Square | Henry James | | Welcome to Sarajevo | Natasha's Story | Michael Nicholson | | Welcome to Woop Woop | Dead Heart, The | Douglas Kennedy | | Wilde | Oscar Wilde | Richard Ellman | | Wings of the Dove, The | Wings of the Dove, The | Henry James |
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
~Martin Farquhar Tupper
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